"A record of things left behind"

(taken, with some alterations, from the Wilson Quarterly,
Spring 1983. Anders Hendricksson created this article out of extracts from
papers submitted by freshmen at McMaster University and the University of
Alberta. Andrew Wright sent me my copy of the article.)

History, as we know, is always bias, because human beings have to be
studied by other human beings, not by independent observers of another
species.

Middle Evil society

During the Middle Ages. everybody was middle aged. Church and State
were co-operatic. Middle Evil society was made up of monks, lords, and
surfs. It is unfortunate that we do not have a medivel European laid out
on a table before us, ready for dissection.

After a revival of infantile commerce slowly creaped into Europe,
merchants appeared. Some were sitters and some were drifters. They
roamed from town to town exposing themselves and organising big fairies in
the countryside.

Mideval people were violent. Murder during this period was nothing.
Everybody killed someone. England fought numerously for land in France
and ended up winning and losing. The Crusades were a series of military
expaditions made by Christians seeking to free the holy land (the 'Home
Town' of Christ) from the Islams.

In the 1400 hundreds most Englishmen were perpendicular. A class of
yeowls arose. Finally, Europe caught the Black Death. The bubonic plague
is a social disease in the sense that it can be transmitted by intercourse
and other etceteras. It was spread from port to port by inflected rats.
Victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks. The plague also
helped the emergance of the English language as the national language of
England, France, and Italy.

The renascence

The Middle Ages slimpared to a halt. The renascence bolted in from the
blue. Life reeked with joy. Italy became robust and more individuals
felt the value of their human beings. Italy, of course, was much closer
to the rest of the world, thanks to nothern Europe. Man was determined to
civilise himself and his brothers, even if heads had to roll! It became
sheik to be educated. Art was on a more associated level. Europe was
full of incredable churches with great art bulging out their doors.
Renaissance merchants were beautiful and almost lifelike.

95 theocrats

The Reformation happened when German nobles resented the idea that
tithes were going to Papal France or the Pope thus enriching Catholic
coiffures. Traditions had become oppressive so they too were crushed in
the wake of man's quest for resurrection above the not-just-social beast
he had become.

An angry Martin Luther nailed 95 theocrats to a church door.
Theologically, Luther was into reorientation mutation. Calvinism was the
most convenient religion since the days of the ancients. Anabaptist
services tended to be migratory. The Popes, of course, were usually
Catholic. Monks went right on seeing themselves as worms. The last
Jesuit priest died in the 19th century.

A reasonable time

After the refirmation were wars both foreign and infernal. If the
Spanish could gain the Netherlands they would have a stronghold throughout
northern Europe which would include their posetions in Italy, Burgangy,
central Europe and India thus serrounding France. The German Emperor's
lower passage was blocked by France for years and years.

Louis XIV became King of the Sun. He gave the people food and
artillery. If he didn't like someone, he sent them to the gallows to row
for the rest of their lives. Vauban was the royal minister of
flirtation.

In Russia the 17th century was known as the time of the bounding of the
serfs. Russian nobles wore clothes only to humour Peter the Great. Peter
filled his government with accidental people and built a new capital near
the European boarder. Orthodox priests became government antennae.

The enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire wrote a book called
Candy that got him into trouble with Frederick the Great.
Philosophers were unknown yet, and the fundamental stake was one of
religious toleration slightly confused with defeatism.

A Rampant period

France was in a very serious state. Taxation was a great strain on the
state budget. The French revolution was accomplished before it happened.
The revolution evolved through monarchial, republican and tolarian phases
until it capitulated into Napolean. Napolean was ill with bladder
problems and was very tense and unrestrained.

History, a record of things left behind by past generations, started in
1815. Throughout the comparatively radical years 1815-1870 the western
European continent was undergoing a Rampant period of economic
modification. Industrialization was precipitating in England. Problems
were so complexicated that in Paris, out of a city population of one
million people two million able bodies were on the loose.

Great Brittian, the USA and other European countrys had demicratic
leanings. The middle class was tired and needing a rest. The old order
could see the lid holding down new ideas beginning to shake. Among the
goals of the chartists were universal suferage and an anal parliament.
Voting was to be done by ballad.

A new time zone

A new time zone of national unification roared over the horizon.
Founder of the new Italy was Cavour, an intelligent Sardine from the
north. Nationalism aided Itally because nationalism is the growth of an
army. We can see that nationalism succeeded for Itally because of
France's big army.

Napoleon III-IV mounted the French thrown. One thinks of Napoleon III
as a live extension of the late but great Napoleon. Here too was the new
Germany: loud, bold vulgar and full of reality.

Culture fomented from Europe's tip to its top. Richard Strauss, who
was violent but methodical like his wife made him, plunged into vicious
and perverse plays. Dramatised were adventures in seduction and abortion.
Music reeked with reality. Wagner was master of music and people did not
forget his contribution. When he died they labelled his seat
'historical'. Other countries had their own artists. France had
Chekhov.

14 pointers

World War I broke out around 1912-1914. Germany was on one side of
France and Russia was on the other. At war people get killed, and then
they aren't people any more, but friends. Peace was proclaimed at
Versigh, which was attended by George Loid, Primal Minister of England.
President Wilson arrived with 14 pointers. In 1937 Lenin revolted Russia.
Communism raged among the peasants, and the civil war 'team colours' were
red and white.

Eight million bayonets

Germany was displaced after WWI. This gave rise to Hitler. Germany
was morbidly over-excited and unbalanced. Berlin became the decadent
capital, where all sorts of sexual deprivations were practised. A huge
anti-semantic movement arose. Attractive slogans like 'death to all Jews'
were used by governmental groups. Hitler remilitarized the Rine land over
the squirmish between Germany and France. The appeasers were blinded by
the great red of the Soviets.

Moosealini rested his foundations on eight million bayonets and invaded
Hilee Salasy. Germany invaded Poland, France invaded Belgium, and Russia
invaded everybody. War screeched to an end when a nukuleer explosion was
dropped on Heroshima. A whole generation had been wiped out in two world
wars, and their forlorne families were left to pick up the peaces.

According to Fromm, individuation began historically in medieval times.
This was a period of small childhood. There is increasing experience as
adolescence experiences its life development. The last stage is us.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes
backward.Nietzche